[ke0me]

According to my 17 year old grandson, there is a great alternative to ALL Microsoft products, and its free.

He is a bit of a computer geek, going to study computer programming in college.

The alternative is Ubuntu operating system, which is an open source program ( Linux based I think). I'm sure a few of you have heard of or used it before.

It comes with MS Office equivalents of Word, Excel, Etc. I'm using it with Mozilla Thunderbird for email and Mozilla Firefox for internet browsing.

The screen layouts are a bit different, but easily learned. I am considering just dumping windows as soon as they quit supporting Win 7 which I have now.

I cant say that it will run every windows program out there, but for basic computer operations, its just fine.

Anyone used it before? I would be interested to hear your experiences.

PS- with the right emulator program, he made my Win98 naval battle program run again, so the Bismark can continue to be destroyed by the US Battleships I send against it (my one gaming vice).